Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even ... Read allEight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
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Nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth. When a young woman is found murdered, a group of local high school students decide to further scare their classmates by spreading online rumors that a serial killer called "The Wolf" is on the loose. By describing "The Wolf's" next victims, the students' game is to see how many people they can convince - and if anyone will uncover the lie. But when the described victims actually do start turning up dead, suddenly no one knows where the lies end and the truth begins. As someone or something begins hunting the students themselves, the game turns terrifyingly real. —focus features
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- BeLIEve
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- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for violence, terror, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a brief drug reference
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- TriviaJeff Wadlow's feature debut. He got the chance to make Cry Wolf (2005) after winning $1,000,000 at the 2002 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival.
- Goofs(at around 30 mins) When Owen and Tom pull Dodger from the pool, her hair is drenched and hanging down over her face. When the camera cuts to Owen's reaction and then back to Dodger, her hair is neatly tucked behind her ear.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Phelous & the Movies: Cry_Wolph (2010)
- SoundtracksTougher Than It Is
Written by John McCrea and Gabriel Nelson
Performed by Cake
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By Arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Top review
Nay
This is one of those movies that try hard to confuse the audience to dissemble obvious twists in the plot, but fail completely. Never does "Cry_Wolf" fool you. You know exactly where it's going and you also know that the final explanation is not going to work after all the "facts" that have been given to us earlier. It sounds confusing, but if you see the movie you'll know what I mean. The worst thing about "Cry_Wolf", however, is that Jeff Wadlow isn't able to pull off one good scare or a thrilling suspense scene. The whole thing just isn't exciting in any way, it's merely tolerable enough for you to keep your eyes on the screen. Needless to say that the characters and the performances are as flat as the story itself (this is, after all, a cast that includes Jon Bon Jovi). There have been far better horror movies (if you want to call it that) in the past 6 years and you'd be well advised to watch the other "Wolf"-movie of 2005, "Wolf Creek", instead of this forgettable affair.
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- Superunknovvn
- May 26, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,047,674
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,551,000
- Sep 18, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $32,586,408
- Runtime
- 1h 30min
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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